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R. A. HARTLEY.

' WHIP SOCKET. No. 586,491. Patented July 13, 1897.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ROBERT ALFRED HARTLEY, OF BRANTFORD, CANADA.

WHIP-SOCKET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 586,491, dated July 13,1897.

Application filed March 16, 1 8 9 7.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, ROBERT ALFRED HART- LEY, a subject of the Queen ofGreat Britain, residing at Brantford, in the Province of Ontario andDominion of Canada, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inWhip-Sockets; and I do hereby declare the following to be afull, clear,and exact description of the invention, such as will enable othersskilled in the art to which it apperlains to make and use the same.

By securing a whip in the ordinary socket attached to the inner side ofthe dashboard of a vehicle said whip is often located out of the reachof a person sitting in an easy upright position, requiring him to leanforward in taking hold of the whip. Especially is this the case insleighing, where the occupant of the sleigh is usually well wrapped upwith lap-robes and in leaning forward to reach the whip displaces therobes. In order to obviate these objectionable features of the rigid orstationary whip-socket I have devised one that can be operated to tiltthe whip backward, and thereby bring it within easy reach, and to thisend the whip-socket is pivoted or hinged to its support and meansconnected for swinging the same upon its pivot, as hereinafter fullydescribed in the specification and set forth in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a view showing the applicationof my invention. Fig. 2 is a front view of the whipsocket and support towhich it is connected, including the bracket. Fig. 3' is a side ele-Fig. 4 is a detail view of the means employed for swinging the socketupon its connections.

Referring to thedrawings by letters and figures, l designates the socketproper, which is of any particular construction to receive the butt-endof an ordinary whip,t-he construction of the socket shown providing forits being stamped from a single plate, which is bent upon itself topresent the band a and spring members I), which embrace the whip, thelower end or foot 2 of said socket being inclined and the terminal bentat an angle, as shown. The inclined foot 2 presents a surface upon whichthe butt-end of the whip rides to hold the upper end in properengagement with the socket, said foot also provid- Serial No. 627,762.(No model.)

ing a means by which the socket is connected to this support or swingingplate by means of a rivet 4. This plate 3 is provided with theprojection 5, which is inclined to correspond with the inclination ofthe foot of the socket to which it is attached, as herein before stated,and said plate is pivoted to the projecting arm 6 of a bracket by meansof the bearing pin 7 to have a swinging movement with respect to saidbracket. The bracket may be of any approved construction, and it isobvious that the socket could be connected in swinging engagement byhaving the plate 3 hinged to the projecting arm of the bracket, it onlybeing necessary that the socket have a tilting movement for the purposehereinafter more fully explained.

The projecting arm of the bracket is provided with a lateral extension8, which forms a stop for limiting the throw or tilting movement of thewhip-socket by engagement of the plate 3 therewith, and for this purposethe plate has a projection c, which limits the throw in one direction byengaging the outer edge of the extension 8, and the shoulder cl, whichengages the inner edge of said extension to limit the opposite movement,which positions the whip-socket in an upright position. In order tobring the whip-socket to a normally-upright position, I provide ahelical spring 9, which is located upon the extension 8 of the bracketand is secured thereto at one end with the inner or opposite endextended to engage the projection c of the swinging plate, the latterhaving an ear 10 out of line with the body of the plate and piercedtransversely to receive the bent end of a rod 11, by which the swingingplate is operated against the action of the spring. This rod 11 isconnected to one end of an operating-lever 12, fulcrumed at anintermediate point upon a pin 13, carried by a metal strap 14, the endof said lever opposite its connection with the rod being turned outwardat an angle, as shown, to form a rest or enlarged surface to receive thetoe of the operators foot.

The device hereinbefore described is attached to a vehicle by locatingthe whipsocket on the dashboard in the usual place, and theoperating-lever 12 is positioned below the socket by attaching the metalstrap G. HAUMAN.

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No. 586,492. Patented July 13,1897.

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